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Note: I replaced his nick with
XXXX for privacy reasons
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1/12/99 2:24 PM XXXX how do u get rid of your bloody coldfire notice?
1/12/99 2:36 PM coldfire i don't know
1/12/99 2:37 PM coldfire "bloddy coldfire notice?"
1/12/99 2:37 PM XXXX u're site
i had 2 quit a 8 hour download 2 stop it
1/12/99 2:38 PM coldfire okay, say again....what exactly happened?
1/12/99 2:38 PM XXXX your logo of coldfire bounces all over the screen
visit your site, and a few mins later, your logo is
bouncing all over your screen
1/12/99 2:39 PM coldfire oh...i had that happen to me before but i thought it
was just my computer....its the blue coldfire 3D text
with the blue fire in the background, right?
1/12/99 2:40 PM XXXX i decided 2 look at your homepage
surfed in, just stayed on the front page
noithing else
surfed out
your little coldfire word, with the flames of blue
burning in the background apperared on my machine
about 5 mins later
and i couldn't get rid of it
even when i logged off of the net, it still was teher
i had 2 shut down and restart
1/12/99 2:41 PM coldfire oh, oops sorry...i didn't make it do that, it must be
a bug or something...are you using internet explorer?
1/12/99 2:42 PM XXXX yes
yes i use ie
1/12/99 2:42 PM coldfire so do i...i use 4.0, it has to be a bug
1/12/99 2:44 PM XXXX same her
u're page, u must know about it
1/12/99 2:45 PM coldfire well, i downloaded the java code for the coldfire
logo, so it must conflict with ie or something...but
i've only seen what you described happen once, and i
can't seem to recreate it
1/12/99 2:47 PM XXXX oh, i'm sure i can, but i have anothe 8.5 hour
download 2 come
1/12/99 2:47 PM coldfire heh, okay, well, if you ever do, tell me how =)
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A couple days later...
1/19/99 3:29 PM XXXX yo!
1/19/99 3:30 PM coldfire hey
1/19/99 3:30 PM XXXX how r u?
hey, if u're thingy woorked 4 ie4, do u think that it
will do it again?
1/19/99 3:31 PM coldfire i tried to make it do it again, but i haven't had any
success
1/19/99 3:32 PM XXXX hmmm
what is your address?
i want 2 try it on the school computers
hehe
1/19/99 3:32 PM coldfire hehe, lol, okay, it's http://surf.to/coldfire
1/19/99 3:34 PM XXXX hehe
willdo mate
i'll let u know how i get on
hehe
1/19/99 3:35 PM coldfire heh, ok
1/19/99 3:36 PM XXXX :o)
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A couple days later...
1/23/99 3:06 PM XXXX hey there mate
u have no idea what your site did to the school
hehe
1/23/99 3:07 PM coldfire lol, what happened?
1/23/99 3:08 PM XXXX hehe
u crashed the primary server.
it overloaded, and blew the hard drive, the
motherboard, and the processor
hehe
just your site that did it.
hehe
oh, and u nuked a hub
teehee
1/23/99 3:09 PM coldfire uh huh, sure...
1/23/99 3:10 PM XXXX yup
i was on it, and we couldn't get the bloody coldfire
thing 2 go away, and then the bloddy comp froze, and
crashed
doesn't work
it took out the hub at the same time
1/23/99 3:11 PM coldfire your joking, right?
1/23/99 3:12 PM XXXX nope
i swear
don't worry, u're link was lost in the chaos
they'll never know, but i have never seen a comp do
that b4, we were stuck on your site 4 almost 7 hours
hehe
1/23/99 3:13 PM coldfire geez...you swear, it really did all that stuff you
said?
1/23/99 3:14 PM XXXX i swear on my life man
and when it blew, all the other comps were taken off
line, as it was the primary server
man, u're website killed the school
1/23/99 3:15 PM coldfire LoL, man, i can't believe it...i didn't even design it
to do that...hehe
1/23/99 3:15 PM XXXX what did u design it 2 do?
1/23/99 3:16 PM coldfire just to be a regular web page
1/23/99 3:17 PM XXXX well u remember the coldfire logo?
that is what took the system over
it kept making itself bigger and bigger, and
overloaded the system
the network is back, just no internet, and no primary
server, and one hub missing
1/23/99 3:18 PM coldfire hehe, whoa. can you tell me exactly you loaded my
page, what browser & ver., and how it took over?
1/23/99 3:22 PM XXXX i typed teh address of www.surf.to/coldfire
in browser ie 5.0
and some machines had ver 4, and some have 3.01, if it
is any help, but i used ie5.0
it was fine, just looking at your page, and then your
logo appeared, and took over everything
like here on my pc, using ie4.0, but this wouldn't go
away. whatever we tried.
tried restarting, but we couldn't do that because it
would shut the network down, so we stayed online. It
just got worse and
1/23/99 3:22 PM XXXX worse until the comp couldn't handle it anymore, and
crashed
1/23/99 3:23 PM coldfire whoa
1/23/99 3:23 PM XXXX hard drive overload, they all blamed it on a virus
hehe
1/23/99 3:24 PM coldfire heh
1/23/99 3:24 PM XXXX :o)
i'll try it again when the server comes back
1/23/99 3:25 PM coldfire LoL, okay
1/23/99 3:26 PM XXXX hehe
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A couple days later...
1/25/99 2:51 PM XXXX hey mate
got the replacement hub 2day
but teh net still doesn't work
hehe
1/25/99 2:52 PM coldfire heh, i still can't believe that my little web page
crashed the network
1/25/99 2:53 PM XXXX hehe
and killed the primary server
1/25/99 2:53 PM coldfire hehe
1/25/99 2:54 PM XXXX :o)
1/25/99 3:59 PM XXXX cya laterz mate
take care
XXXX
1/25/99 3:59 PM coldfire k, later
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A couple days later...
1/31/99 3:16 PM XXXX yo mate
the network is up and running again
hehe
4 a while
hehe
1/31/99 3:17 PM coldfire hehe, ok, you gonna try and load up my page again on
the server?
1/31/99 3:19 PM XXXX yup
see if it was u
hehe
1/31/99 3:19 PM coldfire heh
1/31/99 3:21 PM XXXX :o)
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You know the drill...
2/5/99 3:10 PM XXXX hey there
u do something 2 your site?
we got your coldfire thing again, but nothing crashed
:o(
2/5/99 3:11 PM coldfire nope, i added a filez section, but that was only on
the top frame
2/5/99 3:12 PM XXXX oh well
never mind
i'll try ie5 as that is one some machines now
2/5/99 3:13 PM coldfire heh, okay, if it crashes again, let me know
2/5/99 3:14 PM XXXX k
willdo
but it didn't on ie4
just got your coldfirte thing
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